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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






2. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






3. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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4. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






5. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






6. Wide Range Achievement Test






7. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






8. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






9. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






10. Multisensory Structured Language






11. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






12. Open syllable






13. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






14. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






15. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






16. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






17. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






18. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






19. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






20. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






21. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






22. Multisensory Structured Language Education






23. Ability to understand and express spoken language






24. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






25. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






26. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






27. Whole body learning






28. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






29. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






30. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






31. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






32. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






33. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






34. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






35. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






36. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






37. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






38. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






39. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






40. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






41. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






42. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






43. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






44. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






45. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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46. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






47. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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48. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






49. Individual Educational Plan






50. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






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